Good thing for the Scholastics…

Posted on March 11, 2009 by elliotbee

A blogger named unBeguiled, with whom I have interacted before (e.g., concerning nothingness and existence), recently cited page 109 Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition:
“Angels, not being material, are pure forms or essences on Aquinas’s view, but even with them their essence needs to be combined with existence in order for them to be real, so [...]

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Take a long slip of paper…

Posted on September 15, 2008 by elliotbee

How can we (pardon the pun!) wrap our minds around the immateriality of the intellect, the non-materiality of the mind, and, thus, the human soul of which it is the chief power?
If I were to write one vertical hash mark, on an infinitely long slip of paper, for every number in the set of natural [...]

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Book news…

Posted on September 12, 2008 by elliotbee

Recently, Apolonio opined in a combox here that Catholic philosophy can and ought take a step forward by using the tools of analytic philosophy more consciously. His words were ringing in my ears just as I googled upon the following publishing announcement:

Thought and World: The Hidden Necessities
James Ross

FORTHCOMING IN NOVEMBER 2008 Available for pre-ordering
James F. [...]

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